'Fortress' under the gun

A Luftwaffe gun camera records an attack on a Boeing B-17.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Luftwaffe
• Gun
• Camera
• Boeing
• B-17
• War
• WWII
• Aviation
• Bomber
• Flying
• Fortress

[jovanm90]

this a very professional attack, you can see that he goes for the turrets first, and very calmly moves to the engine. very disciplined.

[Torque2100]

What amazes me about this clip is how much damage that plane soaks up, and it just keeps flying.

Yeah, the tail gunner's probably dead, God rest his soul, but the B-17 is still airborne. That German pilot must have emptied half his ammo into the Fortress and kept on an attack vector until he literally had to pull out or he would crash into the B-17, and the damn thing is still airborne. I don't know many German curses, but every one of them was likely uttered in the cockpit of that ME109.

[DuscanyZands]

@Dogmeat1950 An A-bomb on Tokyo would not have killed as many people as one on Hiroshima. Toyko was already burned out and many of the people dead or gone. Hiroshima had been spared firebombings for the specific reason of determining the efficacy of an A-bomb (and demonstrating its destructive powers to the Japanese). Tokyo was already so firebombed and flattened it might have been hard to tell what additional effect an A-bomb might have had.

[memadmax69]

Anyone happen to know or figure out if this fortress made it home, or landed? It would be interesting to know the history behind this video.

[WickedYankee]

It still amazes me that morons are so easily manipulated by politics and radical hate to further seperate us all by class religion, race and gender. The political, and elite wealthy brain wash you dumbasses so that you become there little lap dog and get manipulated to eliminate and destroy the oposition so to secure their place in power. All the governments do it, and I can see from the posts not to many free thinkers here can see this fact. Too busy disputing twisted facts and hate speech.

[911wuzjews]

@chpman2013 No, he wasn't killed in an accident. He had a VERY MINOR fender bender about as bad as running over a mailbox, and was walking around and coherent after said accident. It's the trip to the hospital, which he tried to refuse and a quick injection that killed him. Patton was killed for speaking out about the jews, nothing less. Patton represented a real threat to the kikes, because Americans back him still today! Fuck these jews! SubvertedNation/net

[chpman2013]

@911wuzjews Patton was killed in an accident

[911wuzjews]

@Dogmeat1950 Yes, Patton was anti-jewish. He said jews were LOWER than insects. You obviously don't know your history, because Patton was killed for speaking out against the jews. I have a very detailed article containing his diary entries, his letters to confidants and his wife that prove what I'm saying. Who do you think the communists were? They were JEWS! Since you're uneducated about the facts, read about it at SubvertedNation/net

[Dogmeat1950]

@911wuzjews um..no.Gen.Patton didn't like Communists, also he wasn't' anti-Jewish. he was a bit anti-Black but wasn't really hardcore about it.

[911wuzjews]

@Dogmeat1950 Nothing wrong with liking the SS or Germany. At the time, DOZENS of countries backed Germany because they knew how disgusting the jews were. Hitler failed by NOT wiping out 6 million of them, because if he had, we wouldn't be having all the wars, terrorism, economic collapse etc. which is a DIRECT result of letting JEWS gain control of Europe and America. General George Patton wanted to stomp the shit out of the commie jews from Russia. Find out more at SubvertedNation/net

[Dogmeat1950]

@Scharfschutzen1 As I said.. your left with trying to make insults. thank you for showing me you know nothing about the subject. done talking to a racist child.